Remarks

Mesocoelium
monas has earlier been reported from
different localities and in a variety of amphibian and reptilian hosts in the Indian sub-continent or erstwhile British India.
Sewell
(1920) described M. sociale (LÃ¼he, 1901),
Odhner, 1910 from Bufo
melanostictus in Calcutta; this species was also recorded from the same
host in Burdwan, West Bengal (Mukherjee
and Ghosh, 1972), Kerela and Tamil Nadu (Singh, 1977). M. meggitti
which was described by Bhalerao, (1927) from lizards in Burma
(Myannmar) was
also reported to occur in toads and frogs (Meggit, 1927; Bhalerao, 1936a). Other species described in the genus Mesocoelium from India
include M. varunae Baugh,1956 from B. melanostictus and M.
thapariGupta et Jahan, 1976 from Haplobatrachus tigerinus (=Rana
tigrina). Diengdoh
(1989) reported it from Polypepdates leucomystax
in Balphakram (Meghalaya). Nagaland is a new locality record with P. taraiensis, Philautus annandalii, Hyla annectans, Odorrana cloronata (=Rana livida), Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis, Amolops marmoratus (=A. afghanus) as new hosts record (Imkongwapang, 2010 PhD.Thesis)

Singh, M. 1977. Studies on the trematodes from Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Records of Zoological Survey of India,72:pp 291-294.

Meggit,F.J.(1927). List of Cestodes collected in Rangoon during the years 1923-26.J.Burma. Res. Soc. 16:pp 200-210.

Baylis, H.A. (1936a) The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Nematoda Vol. I (Ascaroidea and Strongyloidea). Originally published by Taylor and Francis, London (reprinted edition : Today